Where a non-Linda is controlled and surveilled directly by external circumstances, Linda perceives herself to be controlled and surveilled by the cultural “logic of expansion.” If Linda does not participate, she will be judged and have to pay a cost, whether it is social or financial. The difference between the Linda and the precarious person is that the Linda can afford to pay that social cost. The similarity between the Linda and the non-Linda is that her “timer” (the culture of busyness) and the non-Linda’s “timer” (wage labor and structural disadvantage) have common roots. They uphold the
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